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Micheal Sandel, US political philospher talks about public morality, what money can't buy and the Boston Red Sox.Ìý

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Singer songwriter Don McLean chooses White Christmas by Bing Crosby as the track he has inherited and Don't Be Cruel by Elvis Presley as the song he would like to pass on.

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Jacob Barnett was diagnosed with autism when he was two. His mum Kristine was told that he might never be able to tie his own shoes and would never be able to read. But by the age of 10 Jacob started work on his own original physics theory, which could one day get him a Nobel Prize. Now aged 14, he’s studying for a Master’s degree in quantum physics and has an IQ higher than Einstein's.

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Jon Underwood runs pop up in Britain and they are now expanding around the World.Ìý Basically, people meet in a café, have tea and cake and Ìýtalk about death.

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Friend of Nunhead cemetery Tim Stevenson talks about the tranquility of a city cemetery.

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Last night, I was in a pub with lots of lawyers, advertising executives and bankers. Perhaps the most richly rewarded professions in the UK and with a journalist thrown into the mix, probably the least trusted, too. ÌýWe were there for a quiz night, to support a charity to raise funds for research into conditions affecting babies and they all donated quite a bit of their handsome pay, which will make a huge difference to parents and children. ÌýCan you make a moral judgement about who is paid what, if you don’t know what they do with the money?Ìý

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Is it fair that those professions earn as much as they do in the first place and what defines the logic of the market? Manchester United dominated the front and back pages this week, with Ferguson leaving. The reason it was big news was not just that he'd been there a long time, but that he runs a global brand which generates an enormous amount of money. Man U's striker, Wayne Rooney, is the highest paid Premier League player, with personal wealth of £51 million pounds. As Michael Sandel, the US political philosopher, points out, Rooney earns more per match than the most senior nurse in the country does in a year. In a recent Radio 4 lecture – Michael asked whether a banker (or a footballer) should earn more than a nurse. He’s with us on Saturday to discuss how you judge a profession’s monetary value and whether it should be tied to morals. If so, who makes that judgement?

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Also on the programme, a boy whose mother was told when he was two, that he might never be able to tie his own shoelaces. At nine though, Jacob started working on an astrophysics theory. At twelve, he was a paid researcher in quantum physics. His IQ is now higher than Einstein’s. Jacob and his Mum join us live. Intimidated? I am. Our philosopher and physics expert are joined by a former council worker who organises Death cafes in the UK – where people drop in for tea, cake and a discussion about mortality.ÌýWe’ll have our weekly thank you’s and our Inheritance Tracks come from American legend Don McLean.

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Richard’s still on his hols – although he’s already dropped me a line with a programme idea (we're working on it...) so I’ll be joined in the studio by ÌýAasmah Mir and JP Devlin.

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